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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809545003321

Titolo

Virtue and duty in epistemology / / edited by Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773193-7

1-280-48150-1

0-19-534389-1

1-4237-6215-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Virtue

Duty

Knowledge, Theory of

Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Reason, Virtue, and Knowledge; 3 The Unity of the Epistemic Virtues; 4 For the Love of Truth?; 5 Epistemic Motivation; 6 Epistemic Virtue and Justified Belief; 7 Thin Concepts to the Rescue: Thinning the Concepts of Epistemic Justification and Intellectual Virtue; 8 Virtues and Rules in Epistemology; 9 Must Knowers Be Agents?; 10 Epistemic Luck in Light of the Virtues; 11 Epistemic Akrasia and Epistemic Virtue; 12 The Virtue of Knowledge; 13 The Foundational Role of Epistemology in a General Theory of Rationality

14 Epistemic Obligation and the Possibility of InternalismIndex

Sommario/riassunto

American and British philosophers have broken new ground in exploring how the nature of knowledge can be normative. Virtue Epistemology is a new movement receiving the bulk of attention and this volume reflects the best work in that vein.